Re: futexes: Still infinite loop in get_futex_key() in 2.6.31-rc4

Ray Lee
2009-07-27T16:01:05Z

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Jens Rosenboom
<jens.rosenboom@freenet.ag> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:36:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:45 +0200, Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> >
> > > Good question, but as this happens on a production machine, I cannot
> > > easily change the installation to check this.
> >
> > Uhm, but you do run .31-rc4 on it? :-)
>
> In the hope of verifying a patch, yes. Before that we had 2.6.29.4
> for some time.

In principle you should be able to run an x86_64 kernel on that
machine with the 32-bit userspace unchanged. The only hassle would be
if you are using any kernel modules outside the normal tree. So, no
need to change the full installation.